Skip to main content

Search

Jump to facet filters
text_type: Text/Purport
hierarchy: Rāmāyaṇa
hierarchy: Part Three - War
hierarchy: Chapter 2
Rāmāyaṇa 3.2
In Lanka, Rāvaṇa had assembled his ministers for a full council meeting. Seeing the terrible carnage and destruction wrought by …
Rāmāyaṇa 3.2
Rāvaṇa looked around at his advisors. He asked them to carefully deliberate and then decide on their next course of …
Rāmāyaṇa 3.2
Rāvaṇa continued, “I am depending upon your advice, O Rākṣasas. It is said that he is a wise person who, …
Rāmāyaṇa 3.2
The demon king’s generals were all powerful, but they lacked intelligence and political wisdom. Without understanding the full extent and …
Rāmāyaṇa 3.2
One of the mightiest Rākṣasas, Prahasta, stood up and, with his palms folded toward Rāvaṇa, spoke in a voice that …
Rāmāyaṇa 3.2
Another powerful Rākṣasa named Virupaksha stood up and spoke furiously, holding aloft his frightful iron bludgeon which was stained with …
Rāmāyaṇa 3.2
One Rākṣasa suggested that they employ trickery, disguising themselves as humans and infiltrating Rāma’s army. They could pretend to be …
Rāmāyaṇa 3.2
One after another, each of the leading Rākṣasas declared that he alone could defeat Rāma and His troops. Rāvaṇa should …
Rāmāyaṇa 3.2
Vibhishana, Rāvaṇa’s younger brother, then stood up. As the clamor of the other demons died down he spoke to Rāvaṇa. …
Rāmāyaṇa 3.2
Vibhishana was not like the other Rākṣasas. He did not share their inclination for wanton living and violent behavior. Although …
Rāmāyaṇa 3.2
Vibhishana advised Rāvaṇa to give Sītā back to Rāma. If he did not do so, then before long he would …
Rāmāyaṇa 3.2
Rāvaṇa listened to his brother without comment. He did not like Vibhishana’s advice, but it made him somewhat circumspect. The …